Overview
- Provides original information based on field research on violent extremism with some 250 people in five countries
- Develops a comparative and gender framework for understanding countering violent extremism to both the far right and violent Jihad
- Prioritises lived experiences and engagements with communities with countering violent extremism
Part of the book series: Rethinking Political Violence (RPV)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents original research on gender and the power dynamics of diverse forms of violent extremism, and efforts to counter them. Based on focus group and interview research with some 250 participants in Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and UK in 2015 and 2016, it offers insights from communities affected by radicalisation and violent extremism. It introduces the concept of gendered radicalisation, exploring how the multiple factors of paths to violent extremist groups – social, local, individual and global – can differ for both men and women, and why. The book also offers a critical analysis of gender and terrorism; a summary of current policy in the five countries of study and some of the core gendered assumptions prevalent in interventions to prevent violent extremism; a comparison of Jihadi extremism and the far right; and a chapter of recommendations. This book is of use to academics, policy-makers, students and the general reader interested in better understanding a phenomenon defining our times.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Emily Winterbotham is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, UK, and a Deployable Civilian Expert for the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit. Previously, Emily worked as a Political Adviser to the European Union Special Representative to Afghanistan.
Katherine E. Brown is Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and focuses on the role of religion and gender in violent extremism and counter extremism. Katherine has a particular interest in the gendered impacts of state responses on the human rights of religious communities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Countering Violent Extremism
Book Subtitle: Making Gender Matter
Authors: Elizabeth Pearson, Emily Winterbotham, Katherine E. Brown
Series Title: Rethinking Political Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21962-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21961-1Published: 16 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21964-2Published: 16 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21962-8Published: 15 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2752-8588
Series E-ISSN: 2752-8596
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Politics and Gender, International Security Studies, International Relations